I disagree, respectfully, with the views of Carl Zimmerman regarding the Israel/Palestinian situation (“Mideast peace now harder to achieve,” Star-Advertiser, Letters, Sept. 13).

The Palestinians will indeed be angry with President Donald Trump’s recent démarches. I am not certain, however, that the result will be a more difficult road to peace.

Could it truly be any more difficult than the last 50 years of Palestinian rejection of every proposal directed at peace or détente? Zimmerman speaks of the “clueless demagogue in the White House,” with apparently no sense of irony about the clueless Palestinian demagogues in Ramallah who twice walked away from reasonable — if not generous — peace proposals, the most recent of which they greeted with the Second Intifada.

The minimum to be said about the situation is that something must be done to change the Palestinian calculus, and Trump is trying. Israel needs to change also, but it has at least tried, once or twice — to no avail.

Peter Glick

Waialae Nui

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